I’ve spent a lot of my life in the water as a competitive swimmer and water polo player, but I rarely stopped to think about why we swim in the first place.
In this video I take you inside the meet where everything clicked: the nerves before the first race, the moment I saw the board, and the turnaround to do it all over again less than 24 hours later. Recovery, mindset, and what it actually feels like to chase a record on tired legs.
Join me for a morning of training where I take you through 5 of my favourite drills that I’ve used through my career to break world records and win Olympic medals.
Swimmers in Longyearbyen on Svalbard face being without their only swimming pool for much of 2027, when the pool at Svalbardhallen closes for major renovation.
The Fitch girls’ swimming co-op won Saturday’s ECC championship meet, the first time ever that East Lyme did not take the title. Fitch’s Audrey Schrage, Emma Meyer and Riley Stankiewicz won two events each, as did Waterford’s Grace McDonald was also a double-winner, taking the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke. East Lyme’s Sylvi Otter, the diving champion, was named swimmer of the meet and ECC swimmer of the year.
East Lyme’s Sylvi Otter, who won the diving portion of the meet on Friday with a personal-best score of 449.35, gaining her All-America consideration, was named the ECC Swimmer of the Meet for the second straight year, as well as being named the ECC Athlete of the Year in girls’ swimming and diving.
Carson Foster, Caspar Corbeau and Shaine Casas take on the ultimate swimming quiz, hosted by John Mason!
From questions about the Silk Road Tour hosts and the Swimming World Cup to swimming techniques, records and figures, it’s a battle of swimming knowledge.
Who comes out on top? Watch until the end to find out – and play along yourself to see how many questions you can get right!
